Kevin Spacey Can’t Seem To Give Up the Frank Underwood Persona In Bizarre X Video Claiming Guy Pearce Is “Not a Victim”

Pearce casually drops this bombshell about 40 minutes into his podcast interview with Scott Feinberg for The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast—as you do—calling him a “handsy guy” who made him “feel uncomfortable.”

Pearce clarifies, “even though I probably was a victim to a degree; I was certainly not a victim by any means to the extent that other people have been to sexual predators.” Nevertheless, the 57-year-old actor reflected on the ways his reluctance to identify as a victim led him to brush off incidents that deeply affected him. Pearce reportedly kept telling himself that “it was nothing” for five months during filming and claims he was scared of Kevin because he was an aggressive man. 

“He targeted me, no question,” Pearce said, but cited the presence of another actor, Simon Baker, successfully distracting Spacey on occasion, playfully citing how he’s 10 times prettier. Despite this, he reported feeling generally unsafe on set with Spacey and didn't fully process what happened until decades later, in the wake of the #MeToo movement. Without getting into detail, he told The Hollywood Reporter he had a few confrontations with Spacey that “got ugly.”

Anthony Rapp's allegations against Spacey making the news brought him to tears, Pearce claims, as the reality of “what he had gone through” dawned on him. What followed was a weird string of events involving a pseudo reprisal of Spacey’s infamously sinister House of Cards role in the form of a three minute unhinged video that must have sent his publicist into cardiac arrest. In it, he channels the intimidating presence of Underwood, and if i’m not going crazy, even a twinge of the character’s southern drawl, to outright dismiss Pearce’s claims with belittlement and indifference. “Grow up, Guy Pearce,” Spacey said. “You are not a victim.” 

However, it wasn't all taunting and weird obscure references to "horses running out of gas," whatever that means. Spacey grilled Pearce's account of events by implying they had ongoing consensual relations. Whether this was of a platonic or romantic nature is unclear. "Did you also, by the way, tell the press that a year after we shot L.A. Confidential, you flew to Savannah, Georgia while I was shooting Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil just to spend time with me?” Spacey grilled. “Or does that not fit into your victim narrative you have going? Spacey’s manager also tweeted, “he [Spacey] doesn't deny that he may have given Guy attention,” implying that Pearce was recharacterizing the nature of their relationship 28 years later to fit a victim narrative.

This isn’t even the first time Spacey has released a House of Cards-esque monologue in response to sexual predation allegations. It became something of a Christmas tradition of his. The first appeared on Christmas Eve, 2018, shortly after Spacey was accused of sexual misconduct, he released a cryptic video to his YouTube channel titled “Let Me Be Frank.”

In it, he cast doubt on the allegations against him while fully in character as his iconic House of Cards character, Frank Underwood. It was a strange move that proved ineffective in rehabilitating his image or saving him from the public fallout of the #MeToo movement. Shortly after, he was fired from House of Cards, whose production company blamed the failure of its show’s final season on Spacey. Media Rights Capital sued him for $31 million, citing a breach of his contract for sexual misconduct. The case was settled for $1 million.

On Christmas Eve 2019, Spacey released the video “KTWK,” where he suggests the best form of revenge is to "kill them with kindness." The day after the video's release, one of his accuses, Ari Behn, died by suicide, which fueled conspiracy theories. Another Underwood-style video followed in 2020, with "1-800-XMAS" which was more subdued and drew attention to mental health awareness.

Some think his Underwood-style bravado is all narcissistic cope, while others are coming around on Spacey, who has been acquitted of all the charges brought against him thus far. Of course, this is just the court of public opinion that Pearce has voiced his experiences in, but not everyone’s buying it. One X user praised Spacey for consistently facing allegations head on. "Probably the only one in Hollywood to ever do so. For that alone I kinda believe him and side with space ON THIS one. Not everything he's ever done. But this one I'm on his side.”

Spacey’s most recent retweet of an account named American Values, seemingly endorsing the MAHA movement and defense of right wing culture figures like Elon Musk, RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard, and Joe Rogan is curious, considering his lifelong support of Democrats. One does have to wonder if it’s a sign of grifting or genuine change of heart. If he’s going to find supporters anywhere, it probably is in this hodgepodge of right wing tech bros. 

From a quick scan of his social media, I found that his manager, Evan Lowenstein seems to be especially fond of conservative political commentator Douglas Murray, who Spacey toured the Gaza border with in 2024. In keeping with Spacey’s Christmas tradition of posting to his YouTube channel, his most recent upload, from December 25, 2023, is a sit-down interview with Tucker Carlson. He also appeared on the Lex Fridman podcast in June of 2024. I’m not sure what’s going on, but the disgraced Hollywood actor to red pilled podcast bro pipeline seems to be in full swing. He may not be gracing our television screens any time soon, but you can definitely find him on YouTube.